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America At the Breaking Point

Americans of every stripe and hue and belief are exhausted, suffering from mental health issues, mentally broken down, with partisan hate and incivility at an all time high.

So I hoped to find a little comfort in rereading John Dos Passos' classic book, 1919, on its 100th anniversary. In the introduction, the first paragraph, Maxwell writes "...the year 1919 was a breaking point in American life."

While I read the book quite eagerly several years ago, now that it is here, I couldn't emotionally handle the retelling. I put the book down. I too am emotionally exhausted, hoping for the return of civility.